This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal music in the year 1994.
Newly formed bands
Albums
Disbandments
- Atheist (reformed in 2006)
- Follow for Now
- Lost Horizon (then known as Highlander) (reformed in 1999)
- Metal Church (reformed in 1998)
- Nirvana
Events
- Korn release their critically acclaimed self-titled debut album, which is generally considered the first ever "nu metal" album.
- Divine Intervention by Slayer peaks at Number 8 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, with 93,000 copies sold in its first week, and later that year was certified gold in Canada and United States.
- Nick Barker becomes the drummer for Cradle of Filth.
- Longtime Extreme drummer Paul Geary leaves the band is replaced by Michael Mangini.
- Testament release their sixth album Low. It is their first album recorded without original guitarist Alex Skolnick and drummer Louie Clemente, who both left the band a year before, and also their last with longtime bassist Greg Christian, who left two years later.
- Metallica, Danzig and Suicidal Tendencies embark on a U.S. tour together.
- Oomph! establish the rudiments of the Neue Deutsche Härte genre with their album Sperm.
- Vocalist Ralf Scheepers leaves Gamma Ray. He would later go on to form Primal Fear.
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